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  1. Re:As it's been said... on Brexit: Government Rejects Petition Signed By 4.1 Million Calling For Second EU Referendum (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So, you think it;s a super-great idea for voters to express their desires in the most direct way possible, and then have the government just disregard that? I take it that you like people you never voted for or have heard of in a foreign country (Belgium in this case) decide what you have to do, too? At least you are consistent.

  2. You seem to forget that the government is supposed to be serving the voters, not the other way around.

  3. Re:Greens are the new Amish on What Air Conditioning Can Teach Us About Innovation and Laziness (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Precisely. Modern inventions are intrinsically evil and it was better 100 years ago. Sure, you had widespread polio, malaria, yellow fever, flu pandemics, and most of the human population lived on the edge of starvation as it had for 10,000 years, but at least you weren't adding microscopically to pollution.

  4. The invention of A/C didn't damage creativity. Pre A/C, you were *limited and constrained* and had to build porches, limited placement of foliage, and more it less constrained you to do something to deal with the temperature extremes. With A/C, you can make the buildings any shape, any size, with any landscaping, etc. You can make the architecture *any way you like* without even considering the weather or sun. That enable unlimited creativity. Many of the large cities that current exist in North America would be either miserable or unlivable. Do you think you are going to get a city like Phoenix with natural cooling?

  5. Re:Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Germany "raped" Greece? How so? The Greeks very predictably couldn't run their own country - or rather, they ran it into the ground. What was the rest of the EU supposed to do? Just give them money endlessly with no consequences or responsibility to change their ways?

  6. This is the problem on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Losing the standard jack effectively disables the use of any decent headphone currently made.

  7. Re:going the way of manned space travel? on NASA Unveils Plans For Electric-Powered Plane (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Musk, not being an engineer or scientist of any sort, is probably used to people telling him things are impossible. Most of the time, engineers in the current day tend to immediately jump to "impossible" based on their experiences trying to make something of fix something simple due to crushing bureaucracy that they assume everything is impossible. When someone tells a management type something is impossible, they just don't believe the engineer any more, because the engineers are usually overstating the difficulties.

  8. Re:going the way of manned space travel? on NASA Unveils Plans For Electric-Powered Plane (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The Russians are't going to do shit. They have nothing like technology to do this - the Chinese are far more likely and are closer. The Russians plod on with steam-era rockets, which are practical but are a fallback to pre-V2-technoliogy. They aren't advancing any states of any arts.

  9. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    No, it doesn't. Islam is butchering it's way to power in every part of the world.

  10. Re:Hey, Obama, Trump doesn't need any help... on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Has it occurred to you yet that you made a big mistake, and that all this crap shoveled into your head about conservatives is wrong? Or are you going to hold on to it like grim death to the very end?

  11. Re:Tread Carefully on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The world is perfectly capable of stopping it, the only thing lacking is the will to do so.

  12. Re:Meanwhile in America on 'Huge Wake Up Call': Third of Central, Northern Great Barrier Reef Corals Dead (smh.com.au) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, we are debating whether letting sex predators and perverts into the ladies room is a good idea or not.

  13. Re:Pay up ! on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where is the government? The government is busy churning out regulation after regulation that prevents any possible competition that would drive the costs down. Most of these deals are driven by Comcast, etc, lobbying to keep everyone else out.

  14. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 0

    1 round of 38 Special is pretty effective and cheap.

  15. Let's just check on GoPro Footage Gives You A Rocket's-Eye View Of Spaceflight (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, ads disabled, check.
    Hmm, article listed as paid story, no. So it should be safe to read - oh, wait, it's a blatant slashvertisement with a link to a GoPro ad video? Whaaat?

          I love being monetized.

  16. Re:Some perspective here... on Oceans Could Soon Not Have Enough Oxygen To Support Marine Life (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Expect more over-the-top hysterical claims in the months to come, as the window finally begins closing on this monstrous social scam.

  17. Sure seems like it on Ask Slashdot: Should This Photographer Sue A Hotel For $2M? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    As stated, he appears to have a case. However, in my experience, the concept of a limited license time for a professional photography job is *extremely unusual*, Normally, if you do a job, the employer owns the results and can do with them what they want forever.

  18. Re:Actually on Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Exactly! An hour is a lot better than eternity, which is how my Win95 machine worked, frequently.

  19. Re:Global Warming season on One US Oil Field a Key Culprit In Global Ethane Gas Increase · · Score: 1

    You guys just never give up, do you? Nothing is happening as "predicted" - the trends are almost all out of the 3-sigma band of error and headed rapidly towards 6 sigma. Fail.

  20. Re:Weasel / Marten confusion. on Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's a charcoal briquet at this point...

  21. Agreed, I have gotten the smug snotty Euro-phile crap here repeatedly. And the rear end of diesel Mercedes' doesn't turn black because of magical elves.

  22. Re:Hooray for Norway! on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Possibly. The fact that he is still walking around healthy, warm, and well-fed is certainly cruel and inhuman treatment for the victims families.

  23. Re:I guess what scares me on Up To 35,000 Gallons of Nuclear Waste Leak At Washington State Storage Site (rt.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The green leftists are preventing any action by suing to stop work over and over.

  24. Re:Bony fish did not evolve from sharks on Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic Hedgehog Gene (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And ultimately, the limbs arose as a modification of the fins on lobe-finned fish.

            I looked up "sonic the hedgehog" gene and didn't find too many scholarly articles on that particular gene. Nor did I find any "Spiny Norman" gene, nor in fact any hedgehog references to any genes.

           

  25. Re:good news, bad news on NASA: Top 10 Space Junk Missions (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX did what, now? Launch some rockets successfully? What have the done about space junk?